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Isaiah 37

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Hezekiah Consults Isaiah
2Ki 19:1–13
1When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. 2He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. # Isa 1:1 3They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy, for children have come to birth, # Isa 66:9; Hos 13:13 and there is no strength to bring them forth. 4Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord your God has heard. # Isa 36:20 Therefore, lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.” # Isa 1:9
5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, # Isa 7:4; 35:4 with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he shall hear a rumor, # Isa 37:9 and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’ ”
8So the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah. # Jos 10:29 For he had heard that the king had left Lachish.
9He heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “He has come out to make war with you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, ‘Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’ # Isa 36:15 11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them. So shall you be delivered? # Isa 36:18–20 12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, even Gozan and Harran # Ge 11:31; 2Ki 17:6 and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Tel-assar? 13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the kings of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”
The Prayer of Hezekiah
2Ki 19:14–19
14And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. 15Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying, 16“O  Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who dwells above the cherubim, # Ex 25:22 You are the God, even You alone, # Ps 86:10 of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 17Incline Your ear, O  Lord, and hear. Open Your eyes, O  Lord, and see, # 2Ch 6:40; Ps 17:6 and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
18“Truly, O  Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries, # 2Ki 15:29; 16:9 19and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore, they have destroyed them. 20Now, O  Lord our God, save us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Lord, are God.” # 1Ki 18:36–37; Ps 46:10
The Fall of Sennacherib
2Ki 19:20–37; 2Ch 32:20–21
21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22this is the word which the Lord has spoken against him:
The virgin daughter of Zion # Ps 9:14
has despised you and mocked you;
the daughter of Jerusalem
has shaken her head at you. # Job 16:4
23Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice,
and lifted up your eyes haughtily?
Against the Holy One of Israel! # Eze 39:7
24Through your servants
you have reproached the Lord
and have said,
‘With my many chariots
I have come up to the heights of the mountains,
to the remotest parts of Lebanon;
and I cut down its tall cedars,
and its choice fir trees; # Isa 14:8
and I will go to its highest peak,
its thickest forest. # Isa 10:18
25I have dug wells
and drunk water,
and with the sole of my feet
I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
26“Have you not heard?
Long ago I have done it,
from ancient times I have formed it.
Now I have brought it to pass, # Ac 2:23; 4:27–28
that you should turn fortified cities
into ruinous heaps.
27Therefore, their inhabitants were short of strength;
they were dismayed and humiliated;
they were as the grass of the field
and as the green herb,
as the grass on the housetops
is scorched before it is grown up. # Ps 129:6
28“But I know your abode,
and your going out and your coming in,
and your rage against Me.
29Because your rage against Me
and your tumult have come up into My ears,
therefore I will put My hook in your nose,
and My bridle in your lips, # Isa 30:28; Eze 38:4
and I will turn you back
on the way by which you came.
30“This shall be a sign to you:
You shall eat this year what grows of itself,
and the second year what springs from the same,
and in the third year sow and reap
and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31The surviving remnant of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. # Isa 27:6
32For from Jerusalem shall go out a remnant,
and those who escape out of Mount Zion.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts
shall do this. # 2Ki 19:31; Isa 9:7
33“Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria:
He shall not come into this city,
nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shields,
nor build a siege ramp against it.
34By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, # Isa 37:29
and shall not come into this city,
says the Lord.
35For I will defend this city to save it # Isa 31:5; 38:6
for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.”
36Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When others woke up early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. # 2Ki 19:35; Isa 10:12 37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived in Nineveh. # Jon 1:2; 3:3
38As he was worshipping in the house of Nisrok, his god, Adrammelek and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. # Ge 8:4 And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

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